Top Physicist: “Reality Is Not Physical”

Top Physicist: “Reality Is Not Physical”

Federico Faggin was a physicist and engineer who led the development of the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, in 1971. His work at Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel laid the foundations for modern computing.

//Summary - Level-B2//
The text argues that reality is physical and deeply connected to consciousness. According to quantum physics, everything is part of a field, and particles are temporary states. The brain does not create consciousness, but it may come from a deeper quantum field. Our experiences and feelings cannot be copied or measured like classical information. Instead, they may be private quantum information. This view suggests that we do not just observe reality—we help create it. When the body dies, consciousness may continue, showing that we are more than just physical beings.

//Summary - List//

Reality is not only what we can see or touch.
Everything in the universe is connected through invisible energy fields.
What we see as solid objects are just patterns in this field.

Our minds (consciousness) may come from a deep level of the universe, not only from the brain.
Thoughts and feelings are special and can’t be copied like normal information.

We help shape reality by how we observe and think.
Consciousness might exist even after our bodies die.
This suggests we are more than just our physical bodies.

//Summary//

A)
This text explores a deep idea: that reality is not just made of physical things, but also includes consciousness and quantum fields. A top physicist explains that the classical view of the world, based on things we can measure (like particles and brain activity), misses something important. Quantum physics shows us that particles are not fixed things but temporary states in a deeper quantum field.

B)
The human body and mind are not separate from this field. Every cell in your body is connected to the whole, like a hologram. Consciousness, or awareness, may not come from the brain, but from this quantum field, and the brain is just a translator or receiver.

C)
In classical science, we can copy, measure, and analyse information. But quantum information is different. It can’t be copied or shared, like your personal experiences or feelings. These experiences are real, but only exist within you. This means you are not just observing the world but helping create it.

D)
The collapse of the wave function in quantum physics (where a possibility becomes a reality) might only happen when something conscious observes it. This suggests that consciousness creates reality, not the other way around. You are not just a machine but a field of awareness that turns potential into experience.

E)
The text also suggests that consciousness continues after death. When the body dies, the awareness may return to its source, like a drone that stops sending signals, but the pilot remains. This could explain near-death experiences, where people remain aware even when the brain has stopped working.

F)
Ultimately, the message is: You are not just a physical being. You are a conscious field, deeply connected to everything. The world isn’t just made of matter—it’s made of meaning, awareness, and experience. And you are part of creating it.

Top Physicist: “Reality Is Not Physical”

1)
00:01

It took me 30 years to figure out. I can explain what physicists in a 100 years have not understood. Nobody can understand why quantum computers work because their actual operation cannot occur in spacetime. 

There is a deeper reality where the feelings and the fields exist. The meaning of information exist and from that world you have this world that is a classical world where you can get classical information. 

And we think that the only world that exist is this world but this world we have constructed with our bodies. 

2)
00:40

What you're about to hear might completely rewire how you see yourself, your body, your mind, even your place in the universe. Federico Fin isn't just any scientist. 

He's the man who invented the microprocessor. See, in every computer, each switch, a bit, is either on or off. That's it. Zero or one.

3)
01:01

But your body, every single one of your 50 trillion cells, contains the entire blueprint of who you are. Every cell is a miniature reflection of the whole. 

That's not mechanical. That's holographic. We as human beings, we are fields which are part whole of one. the totality of what exists. Same pattern repeated at different scales.

4)
01:24

And here's where it gets even more interesting. He says each of these cells doesn't just hold information. It's connected to the whole body through something deeper, quantum fields. 

This means your body isn't just a system of parts working in isolation. It's a field of intelligence, a constantly adapting, self-aware network. And this isn't speculation.

5)
01:44

This is backed by the foundations of quantum physics. Now, let's unpack that. In classical physics, we treat matter like isolated, measurable stuff. 

But quantum physics shattered that idea. Particles aren't objects. They're states of a field. You can't separate the wave from the ocean.

6)
02:04

Likewise, you can't separate a cell from the field it emerges from. So, when we ask, "What are we really?" We're not bags of chemicals reacting predictably. 

We are dynamic, indeterminate systems woven into fields that respond to intention, attention, and maybe even consciousness. And if that's true, then the way we've modeled consciousness, like it's a side effect of the brain chemistry, isn't just incomplete, it's fundamentally flawed.

7)
02:30

Stay with me because what comes next dives even deeper. You're about to see why classical science has been missing the most important part of the picture. 

For over a century, science has operated under a simple rule. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist. That's how we ended up reducing life to chemical reactions and neurons firing in the brain.

8)
02:52

Because that's what we could observe, record, and replicate. But here's a problem. That method, powerful as it is, can only describe half the picture, the visible half, the measurable half. 

What it misses are the invisible connections, the quantum fields that hold everything together. And ironically, quantum physics has been telling us this for decades.

9)
03:14

Particles, which we once believed to be tiny building blocks of matter, turned out to be not particles at all. They're not little marbles bouncing around. 

They're states of a field, temporary ripples in something much deeper. They come and go. They aren't permanent, and they aren't separate.

10)
03:34

This changes everything, especially when it comes to understanding life because your body, every cell in it, is made of these quantum states. 

And these states aren't isolated. They're entangled. Which means the idea of you being a self-contained machine, it was never true. Particles are not objects. Particles are states of a field.

11)
03:58

They cannot be taken away from the fields. They're not separable from the fields. So why has modern science clung so tightly to the machine model? 

Because it's predictable, it's controllable, and it gives the illusion of certainty. In a classical world, things follow rules. They can be mapped, built, and manipulated.

12)
04:18

And that's attractive not just to scientists, but to industries built around control. But in a quantum classical world, things behave differently. They adapt. They self-organize. They evolve in ways that can't always be predicted. That's a lot harder to monetise and much harder to dominate.

13)
04:38

And here's where it gets even deeper. If the classical model strips away meaning, treating consciousness like a byproduct of brain chemistry, then the quantum model does the opposite. 

It puts consciousness at the foundation, not an accident, not an output, but the starting point of reality itself. And if that's true, then everything from artificial intelligence to neuroscience has been built on a dangerously incomplete understanding of what it means to be alive.

14)
05:06

If you've ever wondered why consciousness still remains one of the greatest mysteries in science, it comes down to this. 

We've been trying to explain it using tools that simply aren't built for the job. In the classical world, the world of computers and equations, information is static.

15)
05:25

You can copy it, move it, and process it through algorithms. That's what your phone does every second of the day. A bit is either zero or one. 

And those values can be duplicated perfectly. But quantum information plays by completely different rules. You can't copy it. You can't even fully observe it without disturbing it.

16)
05:43

The moment you try to measure a quantum bit, what's called a cubit, you collapse it. 

The infinite possibilities it holds shrink down to just one, zero, or one. based on probability and once that collapse happens the original state is lost. The maximum information that you can get from a quantum bit is a classical bit.

17)
06:03

The quantum bit cannot be known. The the note cloning theorem says that you cannot clone even a quantum bit. Quantum information cannot be reproduced. 

Classical information can be reproduced. This means quantum information is private. It cannot be separated from the system that holds it. And here's the mindbending part.

18)
06:25

This kind of information behaves more like experience than data. What do you feel right now? 

Your inner world can't be downloaded, client, or transferred. It's real. It exists, but only within you. And that leads to a radical idea. Maybe consciousness isn't produced by the brain.

19)
06:47

Maybe the brain is a translator, a filter for a deeper quantum field that already contains awareness. 

So when we try to explain consciousness using algorithms, we hit a wall because algorithms can't produce meaning. They can only simulate structure. A machine might generate a sentence, but it doesn't feel the meaning of that sentence.

20)
07:09

Even if AI gives you a good idea, AI doesn't know that it is a good idea. You recognize the good idea of AI with your understanding, with your comprehension. 

In this view, consciousness and free will aren't emergent. They're foundational, and everything else from biology to technology emerges from them. This flips the scientific model upside down.

21)
07:28

Because if what we feel can't be measured, copied, or simulated, then it may be quantum information tied to a field that science still barely understands. 

There's a moment in quantum physics that no one can fully explain. A moment where potential becomes actual. It's called the collapse of the wave function.

22)
07:48

And it's one of the most mysterious transitions in all of science. The collapse of the wave function is just a way of saying that we don't know. 

At the quantum level, particles don't exist in one place. They exist in multiple states at once until we observe them. Then suddenly everything changes. the field collapses and a single outcome appears.

23)
08:10

But here's the catch. Physics can't explain how that collapse happens. There's no formula, no mechanism. It's not a gradual process. 

It's instantaneous, unpredictable, and completely outside the bounds of classical cause and effect. And this is where it gets really strange.

24)
08:28

What if that collapse doesn't happen to us, but through us? What if observation itself, the act of conscious awareness, is what finalizes reality? Think about it. 

A particle only chooses a state when it's observed. But what does observed mean? A camera, a sensor, or something with the capacity to experience.

25)
08:51

This idea that consciousness plays a role in shaping reality isn't just philosophical speculation. It's built into the math of quantum mechanics and it suggests something profound that you're not just witnessing the world, you're participating in its creation. 

Quantum information is the representation of inner experience and the collapse of the wave function is the representation of my of the free will.

26)
09:15

This isn't about magical thinking. It's about revisiting the assumptions we've made about how matter and mind interact and realizing that they were never truly separate to begin with.

Because if quantum states collapse only when measured and measurement requires a reference point, then consciousness may be that reference point.

27)
09:35

Not an observer in the background, but an active agent embedded in the field itself. In fact, every act of awareness could be a moment of creation where infinite possibilities collapse into a single lived experience. 

One that's only meaningful because you are the one experiencing it. This may be the clearest explanation yet for something science has danced around for decades why you can't fully describe reality without including the observer.

 
28)
10:04

And if that's true, then your attention, your awareness isn't just a passive process. It might be the very mechanism that turns potential into reality. 

When you think about information, what comes to mind? A message, a number, a word on a screen. But that kind of information, what physics calls classical, has no meaning on itsown.

29)
10:26

It can be copied, moved, analyzed, but it doesn't feel like anything. In classical systems, meaning is stripped away. A zero is just a zero. A one is just a one. 

The system doesn't care what it means. It just runs the program. But consciousness doesn't work like that. There's a kind of information we rarely talk about.

30)
10:46

You don't just know it, you feel it. The warmth of sunlight, the sound of your name, the sense that something is beautiful or true. These are not just inputs. 

They are experiences. And experiences cannot be reduced to numbers. What we feel is only within the field. That's how we know the meaning is within us.

31)
11:11

Is within the field is not in the information. This is where the idea of quantum information becomes essential because quantum information unlike classical bits cannot be copied or cloned. 

It exists as a unique invisible state. One that collapses the moment it's observed. It's measured. Just like a personal experience, it can be represented but never reproduced.

32)
11:32

And this leads to a startling realization. Maybe feelings, conscious experiences are themselves quantum phenomena. Maybe your inner world is not something generated by the brain, but something expressed through it. 

We've built entire civilizations around the idea that meaning comes from the outside world. But what if it's the opposite? What if meaning is generated from the inside and everything else is just the map not the territory? A theory of reality is not reality. Okay.

33)
12:07

So what you feel only you field not body you field can actually know and you know inside and what you can say about what you feel is a small part of what you feel. Olivo's theorem one bit per quantum bit. 

This flips the script on neuroscience, philosophy, even technology. Because if meaning can't be measured or shared in the traditional sense, then no machine, no matter how powerful, can replicate what it's like to be you.

34)
12:37

This isn't just about consciousness. It's about reality itself. Cuz when you realize that the universe doesn't contain meaning, but that you're the source of it, then suddenly you're not a passenger in this world. 

You're a creator. We like to think of the world as something out there, separate from us, something we can study, manipulate, even control.

35)
12:57

But this idea rests on a deep assumption that the observer and the observed are two different things. Quantum physics says otherwise. At its deepest level, reality is holistic. 

It's not built from separate parts. It's made of relationships, fields, and interactions. You can't pull something out of context and still understand what it is.

36)
13:17

Because the moment you isolate it, you destroy what made it meaningful in the first place. There is no clear boundary between classical and quantum. 

In other words, we again want to put things into boxes. That's the first mistake. There are no separate boxes. One is holistic. The reality, deeper reality is holistic means is not made of separable parts.

37)
13:46

This isn't just theory. It shows up everywhere in a quantum system. You can't fully describe a particle without including the system that observes it. 

You can't separate the dancer from the dance. The act of observation is part of the process. But in classical science, we've spent centuries trying to reduce everything to pieces to break nature down into smaller and smaller parts.

38)
14:10

Why? Because parts can be measured. Parts can be controlled. But fields, relationships, those don't fit neatly into equations. So we started simplifying. 

We took the infinite and made it binary. True or false, right or wrong, zero or one. It made things easier to work with. But in doing so, we began mistaking the map for the territory.

39)
14:39

Even true or false is a approximation of reality valid under certain conditions. And that's a problem. The world we've built, the science, the logic, the technology is based on simplifications that break down the moment we go deep enough. It's like trying to describe a symphony using only two notes.

40)
14:57

At some point, the system becomes incoherent. Not because it's wrong, but because reality is more than logic. It's dynamic. It's alive. And it includes you. The paradox. 

We've built machines that simulate intelligence, but we still don't understand the very intelligence that built them because we've been asking the wrong question.

41)
15:16

Not how does it work, but what is it that knows? And the deeper you go into that question, the more the answers start pointing inward. We've all wondered at some point what happens after death. 

Let's hear what Federico has to say about it. Imagine that you control a drone. you know we are a body controls a drone that is in Afghanistan you know watching around and semiautonomous so I don't have to worry about I only have to express where I want it to go so now the drone looks at that reality where it is sends me information.

42) 
15:50
And I get the conscious experience of what the drone is seeing that conscious experience is not in my body is in my consciousness And based on that and based on my free will, I'll tell the drone what to do. The drone doesn't know anything. 

You know, you were so focused on that drone that you only saw what the drone was seeing because you were piloting it and you were concentrated.

43)
16:19

Then when the drone doesn't send you on it, you look around, you say, "Oh my god, I there is another world here." You see? Yeah. 

That's that's the same thing. the eggs, the ego, when the body dies, you know, it doesn't look at the signals of the body anymore and it looks around, oh I'm I'm Wow, look at this.

44)
16:37

If consciousness doesn't come from the body, but only uses the body, then death isn't the end. It's just a disconnection like a drone going dark while the operator remains intact, simply shifting awareness back to its original source. 

And when that drone goes offline, when the body dies, consciousness doesn't disappear.

45)
16:55

It simply loses its local connection. This isn't just speculation. Thousands of near-death experiences around the world describe the same thing. 

Separation from the body, awareness of surroundings, and a shift into something vaster, more peaceful, more real than anything physical.

46)
17:14

People report seeing their own surgery from above. They recount conversations that occurred while their brain showed no measurable activity. 

And in some cases, they meet people, relatives, friends they didn't even know had passed until they returned and learned the truth. They are clinically dead.

47)
17:31

They're not dead clearly if they are resuscitated, but they are for all practical purposes dead. Okay? And they have an experience in the hospital. 

They see themselves in the operating table. They later tell what's going on while the brain has no electrical signal. The brain is not functioning. So how can you be outside of the body looking down at your body in the operating table? That's cannot be explained.

48)
18:00

Right? This challenges everything we thought we knew. If the brain stops functioning and yet awareness persists, then consciousness cannot be a product of the brain. 

It must be something deeper, something already existing before the brain and continuing after it. Even more fascinating is the idea that the physical world we experience is filtered, limited, like a narrow frequency band tuned by the senses.

49)
18:24

But outside that band, a broader, richer spectrum of reality may be constantly unfolding, one we simply don't perceive through biological eyes. 

Bashin compares it to vision. You see a tiny slice of light, but the electromagnetic field holds infinitely more. Swap your eyes for a cell phone antenna, and suddenly you'd see thousands of conversations happening all around you.

50)
18:48

So, what happens when the filter drops away? When the body is gone and consciousness is no longer tethered to a narrow stream of data, maybe you don't go anywhere because maybe you were never really in the body to begin with. 

There's a moment, instant, silent, and complete, when consciousness becomes aware of itself.

51)
19:09

Not just aware of the world around it or of a body moving through space, but of its own existence. 

That moment isn't gradual. It doesn't build, flashes. And in that flash, something extraordinary happens. 

The creation of a self. The moment that one knows itself, he has to know completely itself because it's not made of parts.

Top Physicist: “Reality Is Not Physical”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEo6eN9ZVnM

Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUFewGHLLg

Renowned physicist shocks the world by proving that "reality isn't actually real"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozRyMnYFc68&t=635s

Federico Faggin - Wikipedia

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Federico Faggin ( born December 1, 1941 ) is an Italian-born physicist and electrical engineer known for his involvement in designing the world's first microprocessor and for successfully leading the development and marketing of the Intel 4004. He was a key figure in microprocessor design for the first five years of Intel's history. During the next five years, he founded and led Zilog, the world's first pure-play microprocessor manufacturer as CEO.